User:Carcharoth/World War I desk

This page is for co-ordinating my article work and other work on the topic of the First World War (and some Second World War topics as well).


 * Co-ordination
 * World War I desk
 * WWI contest follow up
 * WWI contest stats
 * Criteria for war memorial articles
 * To improve includes some WWI-related articles


 * Drafts
 * Article incubator/Political and military leadership during World War I
 * Article incubator/List of British Army generals who died during World War I


 * Articles created
 * Stone of Remembrance
 * List of Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War I memorials to the missing in Belgium and France
 * La Ferté-sous-Jouarre memorial
 * Neuve-Chapelle Indian Memorial
 * Villers–Bretonneux Australian National Memorial
 * Delville Wood South African National Memorial
 * Arras Memorial
 * Le Touret Memorial
 * Pozieres Memorial
 * Loos Memorial
 * Vis-en-Artois Memorial
 * Soissons Memorial
 * Nieuport Memorial
 * Buttes New British Cemetery (New Zealand) Memorial
 * Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial
 * Memorial Gates (Constitution Hill)
 * For Services Rendered
 * The King's Pilgrimage
 * The Muse in Arms
 * The Ypres League
 * Louis Vaughan
 * Gilbert Dyett
 * Gilbert Clayton
 * Memorial tablets to the British Empire dead of the First World War
 * Centenary of the outbreak of World War I
 * List of Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War I memorials to the missing
 * Dunkirk Memorial (WW2)
 * Doiran Memorial


 * Other articles worked on
 * Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery
 * The Cenotaph, Whitehall
 * Commonwealth War Graves Commission
 * List of Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War II memorials to the missing (WW2)


 * Templates (navboxes) created:
 * Commonwealth War Graves Commission


 * Other resources
 * Wikisource work (various, to be listed, see en:wikisource)
 * Commons work (see photos at commons:User:Carcharoth (Commons))

Range of books and other publications (including tourist guides and museum books), can be broadly divided into nine groups. Examples are given below. This is not a comprehensive list, other books may also be available for consultation, please ask.
 * Library
 * Overview histories
 * The Great War (Ian F. W. Beckett, 2007, second edition)
 * Battles and campaigns
 * ''The Marne, 1914 (Holger H. Herwig, 2009)
 * 1918 - A Very British Victory (Peter Hart, 2008)
 * Somme (Martin Gilbert, 2006)
 * Passchendaele (Nigel Steel and Peter Hart, 2000)
 * Forgotten Battlefronts of the First World War (Marix Evans, [2003], 2009)
 * Biographical
 * The Chief - Douglas Haig and the British Army (Gary Sheffield, 2011)
 * Haig's Generals (2006)
 * The Last Fighting Tommy (2007)
 * Hero of the Fleet (2009)
 * The Last of the Last (2010)
 * WWI in literature
 * British and French Writers of the First World War (Frank Field, 1991)
 * The Great War and Modern Memory (Paul Fussell, 2000 edition)
 * Anthem for Doomed Youth (Jon Stallworthy, 2005 edition)
 * Poets of the Great War (Tonie and Valmai Holt, 1999 edition)
 * A Corner of a Foreign Field - The Illustrated Poetry of the First World War (selected by Fiona Waters)
 * Battlefield tourism guides
 * The Middlebrook Guide to the Somme Battlefields
 * The Western Front - North and The Western Front - South (Holt's Concise Illustrated Battlefield Guide)
 * Before Endeavours Fade - A Guide to the Battlefields of the First World War
 * Memorials and cemeteries
 * The Immortal Heritage
 * Remembered - The History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
 * Courage Remembered
 * The Unending Vigil
 * Empires of the Dead
 * National narratives
 * Springboks on the Somme
 * Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment
 * The Fighting Newfoundlander
 * Australians in Britain - Two World Wars
 * Gallipoli Revisited - In the Footsteps of Charles Bean and the Australian Historical Mission
 * All the Kaiser's Men - The Life and Death of the German Soldier on the Western Front
 * Commemoration and memory
 * Race, Empire and First World War Writing (Das)
 * Altered Memories of the Great War (Sheftall)
 * The Great War in History (Winter and Prost)
 * The Great War - Myth and Memory (Todman)
 * The Great War and Medieval Memory (Goebel)
 * Commemorations - The Politics of National Identity (Gillis)
 * Battlefield Tourism (Lloyd)
 * Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning (Winter)
 * Other
 * World War I - Five Continents in Flanders
 * The Battle Book of Ypres
 * The Beauty and the Sorrow
 * The First World War in 100 Objects
 * The Quick and the Dead (van Emden)
 * Tommy's Ark (van Emden)
 * A Peace to End All Peace (Fromkin)
 * The Long Shadow (Reynolds)
 * Catastrophe (Hastings)
 * The Sleepwalkers (Clark)


 * Reviews
 * WikiProject Military history/News/December 2013/Book reviews includes my review of Empires of the Dead (Crane, 2013)


 * Centenary sources
 * Westminster Abbey service (4 August 2014)
 * The Gallipoli Campaign Commemorative Programme (Official Commemorative Programme document for the service on the Cenotaph, Whitehall on 25 April 2015)
 * The Battle of Jutland Commemorative Programme (Official Commemorative Programme document for the service in Saint Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, on 31 May 2016)
 * Presumably at some point the Official Commemorative Programme for one or more of the Somme ceremonies will be published, but no sign of them yet (maybe because they were not solely UK government events, but done jointly).
 * Westminster Somme Centenary
 * Centenary News
 * The Somme and 1916 centenaries
 * Nation marks 100 years since the Battle of the Somme
 * At the Somme Vigil at Thiepval, the song 'Lads in their Hundreds' (Butterworth's Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad) was sung by Samuel Boden, see also Centenary: Words & Music of the Great War. Prince Harry read out 'Before Action' by W. N. Hodgson.
 * Royals at centenary.
 * Manchester Somme
 * Highlights video of Somme centenary service at Thiepval is online
 * Passchendaele: WW1 battle centenary plans
 * Armistice Centenary Westminster Abbey Service (11 November 2018)


 * Other sources
 * British Pathe WWI collection
 * Philip Hepworth
 * Colin St Clair Oakes TOO OBSCURE
 * DONE - Dunkirk Memorial
 * DONE - Doiran Memorial
 * Duhallow blocks, can be illustrated with images.
 * Follow CWGC Twitter account (centenary updates), plus Facebook posts
 * Example BBC article (add big list of many others)
 * The Arts Show (Episode 3)] of the 2016/7 season on BBC Northern Ireland, features Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme.
 * Brookwood 1914-18 Memorial - this is actually a new memorial, unveiled in 2015. Add to the WWI list.
 * Stained glass memorials


 * Images
 * Good examples of different headstones: File:Yokohama War Cemetery.jpg and File:Doiran-BritishMilitaryCemetery.jpg. A possible example of a non-CWGC war cross is File:Weymouth war cross.JPG in Weymouth, Massachusetts (see here).
 * Rare historical images: File:Kinderen leggen bloemen op de Britse militaire begraafplaats Oosterbeek (2).jpg and File:Kinderen leggen bloemen op de Britse militaire begraafplaats Oosterbeek.jpg.
 * Example of cemetery undergoing renovation/turf replacement: File:Colne Valley Cemetery -25.JPG and File:Brandhoek New Military Cemetery N°3.1.JPG and possibly cemetery wall rebuilding: File:Seaforth Cemetery, Cheddar Villa 4.JPG.
 * Temporary marker for broken headstone: File:Heverlee War Cemetery-47.JPG.
 * Cemetery inaugurations: File:London Rifle Brigade Cem. 12.JPG and File:Ramleh War Graves Cemetery Unveiling - May 6 1927 (17139678919).jpg.
 * Headstone engraver at work: File:Ypres Reservoir Cemetery-3.JPG.
 * Three war cemetery plans: File:Amara War Cemetery plan.jpg and File:Site plan for the Forceville Communal Cemetery Extension.jpg and File:St Symphorien Military CemeterySt Symphorien Military Cemetery Map.jpg.
 * Broken Cross of Sacrifice: File:Bethleem Farm West Cem. 8.JPG.
 * Another 'cross' alternative, this one in Gaza: File:Gaza War Cemetery 1.jpg (needs cropping).
 * Cross that is 'dirty': File:Bouilly Cross Roads Military Cemetery-3.JPG, and one in poor condition: File:Auchonvillers Military Cemetery 9.JPG.
 * Rare example of an 'original' or 'other' memorial/gravestone in a CWGC cemetery: File:Lapugnoy Military Cemetery 2.JPG


 * Other
 * DONE - Contact Wernervc (Dutch Wikipedia), and see also the photo collection. Possible photo requests?
 * Interesting memorial plaque
 * Yokohama War Cemetery has at least three Crosses of Sacrifice, plus a Memorial Cross in the post-war section and an obelisk in the Indian section.
 * Phaleron War Cemetery (Athens) has a shelter inscription: "We who to clothe Hellas in freedom fought, Lie here at rest in praise that fadeth not" (image).
 * Rome War Cemetery has a similar shelter inscription: "These soldiers of the British Commonwealth gave their lives to preserve liberty and by their sacrifice restored the freedom of Italy and the ancient friendship of the Italian and British peoples. 1939-1945" (image). The Latin inscription is: "Nos Britannico nomini adscripti communis salutis usque ad mortem vindices ut Italiae libertas et ambobus populis vetus amicitia redintegrata sit sepulti iacemus.".
 * Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, has a memorial seat with a Welsh inscription and quote from a poem by Hedd Wyn.
 * The church at Mametz has a memorial wall plaque to the 38th (Welsh) Division, with trilingual inscriptions in English, French and Welsh, including the phrase "committed to the pious care of the sons of France in whose land they repose in everlasting alliance".
 * Excellent overview of memorials to the missing is here:.
 * Delville Memorial Wall
 * Names on memorial panels: 1, 2, 3, 4.


 * Alerts
 * Follow ARTICLE ALERTS to see activity in this area (not all editing activity, but a certain level of the activity).


 * Directory
 * User:Carcharoth/First World War projects directory

Articles that have caught my interest:
 * Other articles
 * Grade I listed war memorials in England
 * Grade II* listed war memorials in England
 * Westfield War Memorial Village

Many, many BBC programmes.
 * Television
 * Heroes of the Somme features seven Victoria Cross recipients from the Battle of the Somme: William McFadzean; Robert Quigg, John Holland, Thomas Hughes, John Campbell, Fred McNess, Bernard Freyberg.


 * National Archives:
 * http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/
 * http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/index.htm


 * Bell-ringers
 * http://www.cccbr.org.uk/rolls/


 * IWM Bawtree collection
 * Fascinating collection (hundreds of photos) of early graves registration unit and IWGC work. Many photos showing the variety of original grave markers used, and some close-up shots of individual grave markers.


 * http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/listing/object-205001859
 * Selected ones from first 20 pages: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205344035 ; http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205343557 ; http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205085830 ; http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205343662 ; http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205344032 ; http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205344057 ; http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205343648 ; http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205343843


 * Stained glass WWI memorials
 * Could easily be drawn into this: Busbridge (among other places).


 * Great War Epitaphs
 * Absolutely incredible site here:
 * Be very proud, To number me among the deathless dead. (Very moving poem - the conjunction of 'tears' and the phrase 'long ago' rather anachronistically recalled to mind this cricket poem from another era)


 * Memorial tours
 * http://historytothepublic.org/war-memorial-tour-in-cambridge/


 * Iraq problems
 * https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/664275/British-war-graves-veterans-families-complain-memories-being-forgotten